kernel.org
Linux kernel
Who runs Linux kernel, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open-source software repository alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- FreeBSD
Measured from Linux kernel’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Linux kernel01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Linux kernel
Linux kernel kernel.org
Wikidata: Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Linux kernel tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 4 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Linux kernel’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Linux kernel
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Linux kernel, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
Very close - 02
The GNU Operating System and the Free Software Movement
Since 1983, developing the free Unix style operating system GNU, so that computer users can have the freedom to share and improve the software they use.
Very close - 03
Welcome to LWN.net [LWN.net]
computing webzine with an emphasis on Unix-like operating systems
Very close - 04
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
Debian is an operating system and a distribution of Free Software. It is maintained and updated through the work of many users who volunteer their time and effort.
Very close - 05
xorg
graphics controller and network protocol for UNIX-like systems
Very close - 06
Welcome – Gentoo Linux
The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution.
Very close - 07
AlmaLinux OS - Forever-Free Enterprise-Grade Operating System
An Open Source, community owned and governed, forever-free enterprise Linux distribution.
Very close - 08
The NetBSD Project
Very close - 09
sourceware.org: Free software! Get your fresh hot free software!
Sourceware free software
Very close - 10
OpenBSD
the main OpenBSD page
Very close - 11
Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux is an open enterprise Operating System designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Enterprise Linux.
Very close - 12
Arch Linux
Linux distribution
Very close - 13
OpenInfra Foundation: We build communities who write software that runs in production - OpenInfra Foundation
The OpenInfra Foundation is an open source foundation supporting a global community of 110,000 individuals to build and operate open infrastructure software.
Very close - 14
Home - KDE Community
KDE is an open community of friendly people who want to create a world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys freedom and privacy.
Very close - 15
Xfce Desktop Environment
Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
Very close - 16
The CentOS Project
Linux distribution
Very close - 17
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 18
Codeberg.org
Codeberg is a non-profit community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.
Very close - 19
Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close - 20
Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Linux kernel’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Linux kernel uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Linux kernel adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 2 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Linux kernel’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=nb4Wx5xBQM3b-a3OV2KSlPL786714Y7M6GfBtJf1opQ
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 14/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on kernel.org 7/20
- Bootstrap · not on kernel.org 5/20
- nginx 5/20
- Font Awesome · not on kernel.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on kernel.org 4/20
- Google Workspace · not on kernel.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on kernel.org 3/20
- Cloudflare · not on kernel.org 3/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on kernel.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on kernel.org 3/20
- cdnjs · not on kernel.org 2/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on kernel.org 2/20
- jsDelivr · not on kernel.org 2/20
- Matomo · not on kernel.org 2/20
- SendGrid · not on kernel.org 2/20